By K.A. Papmehl
ISBN-10: 940118397X
ISBN-13: 9789401183970
ISBN-10: 9401191018
ISBN-13: 9789401191012
This learn is an accelerated and revised model of a thesis approved for the Ph. D. measure by way of the collage of London in 1965. My honest thank you visit Dr. Bertha Malnick, previously of the varsity of Slavonic and East ecu stories, for her helpful suggestion, feedback, and inspire ment. a number of the fabric utilized in Chapters 3 and 4 has been released prior within the Slavonic & East eu assessment, and i'm thankful to the Editors of that magazine for his or her style permission to attract on it for the current goal. so much of my learn used to be performed within the libraries of the British Museum and of the varsity of Slavonic and East eu stories, and that i desire to thank the various participants of the workers of either those associations who facilitated my labours. My thank you additionally visit the women of York collage Secretarial prone focused on getting ready the manuscript for the click. ultimately, i have to recognize the significant debt of gratitude lowe to my spouse, with out whose co-operation the complete venture may perhaps by no means have materialised. The accountability for all critiques expressed during this e-book and for all its shortcomings is completely my very own. Toronto, Canada December 1970 advent The eighteenth century for Russia marks the transition from the medieval (i. e. non secular) to the trendy eu (i. e.
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The translators were usually members or employees of the Academy itself. The Academy records show that such translations, when ready for print, used to be submitted "for examination". This was usually carried out by some members considered competent, 12 and the findings referred to the Kantselariya or to the President for the final approval. Both the Kantselariya and the President not infrequently acted independently of the "examiners" or of each other, with the higher authority overriding the lower.
Sumarokov's The Industrious Bee), XVIII Vek, Sb. , 1962, p. 400. The authors of this article use the quoted instruction to Popov as a premise for the assertion that the "censorship" exercised by the Academy was intended to deal with both the "ideological" and "formal" aspects of a written work. In this they overlook Sumarokov's letter applying for the use of the Academy's printing facilities from which I have just quoted. Since the distinction between the contents and the form of items to be published was first made by Sumarokov himself, Taubert's letter clearly amounts simply to an acceptance of his terms and cannot serve as a basis for a theory of principles of censorship as conceived by the Academy authorities.
11 •7 20 EROSION OF OLD ATTITUDES "Since this is a delicate matter it may be possible that someone will find some· thing doubtful from the point of view of our religion. However, the judicious reader will forgive me for two reasons: first, I am not a Theologian. " 21 The next point to consider is the freedom of teaching. On 10 August 1750 were issued new regulations governing the functioning of the University and the Gimnazya attached to the Academy of Sciences. 22 These are written in the traditional spirit of tight control and reglamentation.
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